Stellar Film Festival 2025: Who, What, and When
The 2025 Stellar Film Festival line-up is, like all years, a top tier slice of some of the very best Australian short films around. We're eager to once again provide support to the festival with m…
WA Made Film Festival Interview: James Hoare on the art of cinematography on a budget
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Cinematographer James Hoare is a recent graduate from Curtin University, wher…
Vincent Miller: The boy from the bush goes Inside
I’m sitting in my poorly airconditioned Melbourne apartment waiting to speak to the superbly talented just seventeen-year-old Vincent Miller. We’re connected via Zoom, and I ask Vincent where he is fr…
Sundance Review: Sukkwan Island not remote enough for dad outrunning himself
Nature’s an easy place to idealise. Both the tortured artist’s getaway of preference and where wayward souls (at least in movies) go for renewed purpose, nature keeps us honest—or so we like to believ…
90s All Over Me Part 2: 1990 – From Adventures of Ford Fairlane to Wild at Heart
90s All Over Me takes inspiration from 80s All Over, the Drew McWeeny/Scott Weinberg podcast that attempted to review every major film release of the 80s one month at a time; that podcast ended circa…
Queer Screen Interview: Sally! Co-Directors Ondine Rarey and Jörg Fockele on bringing the story of Sally Gearhart to life on screen
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. The joyous and jubilant documentary Sally! - the exclamation mark is delibera…
Queer Screen Interview: Karen Knox and Lane Webber on their raucous indie rock film We Forgot to Break Up
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. We Forgot to Break Up tells the story of fictional Canadian band The New Norm…
Bonus Track is the fantastic romance that queer kids deserve
There is a fairy tale sweetness to Julia Jackman’s queer coming of age film Bonus Track that makes the relatively rote storyline charming rather than grating. Written by Mike Gilbert from a story by J…
Getting to The Substance: An interview with director Coralie Fargeat
Over the last year, no director has had the ascent of Coralie Fargeat. The French filmmaker has gone from indie genre darling to one of the most talked-about directors in Hollywood. Her 2017 debut, Re…
Come Again: Nicholas Verso’s Invisible Boys is the emotional coming of age gay drama we need right now
Nicholas Verso intimately understands the emotional rollercoaster that comes with that stage of existence where, thanks to puberty, ageing, and this cruel thing we call life, you find yourself as a te…
Charles Williams’ Inside is top tier Australian cinema
“The worst of men, they’ve got a little bit of good in them and that will be their undoing.” Charles Williams’ brutal and blazing Australian prison drama Inside is underscored by its immense humanism…
Navigating Transmasculine Realms: An Artistic Journey Through Sexuality, Identity, and History in Jules Rosskam's Innovative Film Desire Lines
Desire Lines screens at Queer Screen on 23 February 2025 and will be available on demand for those who cannot attend in person. Find all the details via the Queer Screen site here. In Jules Rosskam&#…